How to wear oversized clothing. 5 simple rules

Freedom is in fashion, so is self-expression. Stereotypes breakdown is in fashion, so is mixing styles. Women do their best to say to the world that clothes they wear is just the part of their creative mind, and in no case the sense of their lives. With their appearance women show to those who can read between the lines that the main thing is inside, same as Intel famous advert says.

We believe this is a key reason for oversized fashion to become so popular. Women, as well as men, tend to prefer comfortable clothing nowadays. An item would be (or even must be?) as comfy as your pajamas are.

An item would better be (or even be) as comfy as your pajamas))

Have you ever tried on your husband’s/boyfried’s loose sweater? Try it and feel with your skin how comfortable and cozy it is. Remember this feeling, then wear a fitting dress. Now compare your sensations and wear what you liked more. We bet it’ll be an oversized something!

All photos via Pinterest.com

A brown oversized coat and a sock hat

How to wear oversized trend

Main rules are the following:

• Oversized clothes should be 2 sizes up. If you are tall, items of 3-4 times larger than your size will do. An item that is just one size large is anything but the oversize.

• Best oversized colours are neutrals and pastels — all shades of grey, black, white and beige. This begs the next rule:

• To get the look, play with textures rather than with colors. For example, wear an angora sweater with jogger-pants,

A girl in an oversized sweater

While lace or tulle dress looks good with a knit sweater:

A tulle dress & an oversized cardigan

• The fourth rule states: Finery is unnecessary. Matching this stuff may be a headache, while oversized fashion is smart enough to avoid a fuss.

• The fifth rule is the key. It states as follows: there are no rules at all.

Petite ladies who have an inverted triangle body type should be careful wearing oversized clothes. Probably you can’t do without heels. It is also important that an oversized piece would fit on shoulders or be considerably wider. Otherwise total look would seem heavy.

Unexpectedly, oversized items seldom make women look fuller. As a rule, they even hide some extra pounds.

Oversized blouse / shirt

It would be a good idea to tuck your shirt only in front. Such trick has a number of advantages. Firstly, it looks bold, secondly, you achieve the effect of slight carelessness and relaxation. And the last but not the least, it creates vertical stripes, which help to elongate your body and make your waist look slender.

An oversized shirt tucked in

A white boyfriend shirt paired with jeans

Of course, street style fashionistas may become fed up with tucking in their shirts. It depends on their mood, you see. They may tuck it in if they want and they may not.

Naturally, an oversized shirt goes with a pair of skinny jeans or classic pants instead of a short skirt.

A baggy shirt, a short skirt and long legs

If the bottom of the shirt is flat, then the horizontal line should not pass where your hips have the maximum width, but only above or below this conditional line. If the bottom of the shirt is cut so that the diagonals are formed, this shirt, even if it is oversized, will visually make you look slender.

Street style look: chinos and a shirt. No rules, no taboos!

A baggy dress outfit

You can pair an oversized knitted midi dress with knee socks and combat boots.

An oversized knitted dress

Oversized midi dresses are in now, and we do recommend them as well. Depending on the season wear your dress with flats, sneakers, ankle boots or sandals.

Oversized dresses

An oversized shirt dress will easily hide some extra pounds in the belly area, tested through practice:

Shirt dresses

Forget about little black dresses, the oversized ones are in fashion now! Put on a shirt or a blouse under your dress in autumn, winter or early spring, and that’s ll be it.

Oversized trousers and boyfriend jeans

You cold wear them with a slouchy cardigan or with a coat, a sheepskin jacket or a sweatshirt. For a bolder look sunglasses is a must.

You could wear oversized jeans like that

A knit long-sleeved shirt or a turtle neck will do as well:

Wide jeans and a long sleeved T-shirt

A pair of boyfriend jeans, a white blouse and a cardigan in a-la Chanel style will help you get a wow-effect look:

Smart and cool

It will look like you are so slim that you just failed to find a smaller size. Try on clothing of a bigger size to make sure of it.

Grey, black and white

This is how a middle aged couple wear oversized trend:

A lonng-married couple in oversized trousers

These petite women in baggy trousers do not even pretend to seem taller. Their looks kinda tells us “Yes, we are as we are. So what?”

Wide trousers on petite ladies

How to wear an oversized sweater

Combine it with a pencil skirt, an A-line/pleated skirt, shorts, chinos or jeans. Or, better, forget this trivial key information and look at the examples. As we already said above, a minimum of accessories, neutral colours and heels would be nice. Do you have a statement bag? If so, that’s great!

Oversized sweaters paired with pencil skirts

These ladies differ in terms of age, but both of them are beautiful and both have a sense of style. And — is it just a coincidence we wonder? — both of them are wearing oversized jumpers.

How about these looks?

Layered outfits

If you fail to find a sweater 3 size bigger than your regular size is, go to the menswear department. 99% you’ll succeed in finding it there.

A black and white combination always looks cool

Tuck your oversized sweater same way you tuck in a shirt

Wear oversized sweaters with pencil skirts

Of course, grey, black, white and beige colours are not the only popular among those who prefer the oversized trend, see the photo:

A street style fashionista in a loose red top, trumpet skirt and slip-ons

Oversized knit cardigan goes with dresses as in the photo. By the way, notice the shoulders lines – they are much lower than they are supposed to be.

Long loose cardigans worn over the dresses

As you see, everything can be oversized, even scarves

Two shades of gray: the cardigan and the scarf

Street style fashionistas on the streets wearing oversized sweaters

Oversized items on plus size women

Oversized coat outfits

Oversized coats most frequently goes with fitted outfits underneath. It’s good for those of you who’d like to look visually slenderer.

A girl in a long oversized cardigan and combat boots

Every detail of the look suggests that the lady is a creative person to the very fingertips:

An oversized denim kimono looks cool:

A long denim kimono, skinny pants underneath

To get the a minimalist style look, wear a large coat. We like such metamorphosis and we hope you like them too.

A grey oversized coat paired with white trainers

Scottish tartans will be extremely popular next Fall & Winter season. However, to tell your the truth, they’ve blown our minds long ago. We have to solve the problem with the help of shopping from times to times.

A plaid oversized coat

Women in their 50s may feel free about wearing oversize. Light colours – all shades of white, gray and beige – are more preferable than darker ones.

Light colours create aristocratic looks

If you are tall enough, the cardigan or the coat may fit well with trainers. If you wish to look a bit taller, then thick soled sneakers, platform sneakers or heeled ankle boots will work well.